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Charity Hospital is at the center of the financial dispute. Last week Dr. Samuel Parry, a plastic surgeon who had taught as a full professor at Tulane for 12 years, brought a class action charging that the university has systematically withheld fees earned by Tulane faculty members at Charity Hospital. Marrogi's suspicions about Gerber began over Charity billings--and compensation. "I started looking at what he was giving us, and I knew it was impossible," says Marrogi. One department memo claimed Marrogi had billed $9,000 to Charity over a year. But Marrogi had filed 1,100 lab reports...
Hurricane Bob, continuing to blow through the Pentagon, took down its third major Army official Monday in the wake of the Walter Reed scandal. Army Surgeon General Kevin Kiley, who had run the Army's pre-eminent hospital from 2002 to 2004, has submitted his resignation, the Army announced. Following the firing of Army Secretary Francis Harvey and Walter Reed commander Major General George Weightman, Army officials are talking of new leadership to fix the care given to wounded outpatients at Walter Reed...
...goes Harvard, so goes the nation—at least if the US Surgeon General has his way. A report issued this week by the Surgeon General lists a number of recommendations that colleges should adopt to curb underage drinking, but Harvard already has many of the programs in place. The report called on schools to limit alcohol sales at sporting events, educate students on the effects of alcohol, forge community partnerships, and encourage alcohol-free social events. Harvard, unlike many other colleges, currently has programs and alcohol policies in place that incorporate the suggested strategies, according to Director...
...Most have gunshot wounds. Others have burns and lacerations from explosions. Shuwetij rarely asks what happened, in any case. "Most of the patients are exhausted when they come in," says Shuwetij, whose deep brown eyes sag heavily as he describes his days and nights at work as a trauma surgeon. "We try not to talk to them too much...
...after getting threats. The remaining doctors at the hospital, which has about 200 beds, often will not work overnight shifts because the neighborhood is unsafe. At night, Shuwetij usually hears the sound of gunfire close by, and mortars have fallen near the hospital grounds. Shuwetij, who's been a surgeon at the hospital for the last 14 years, picks up the slack on the night shifts along with his wife, another doctor at the hospital. The two have turned one of hospital's side rooms into a tiny bedroom. They stay on overnight at the hospital five or six nights...